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"Three minutes left for the rest of our lives," Marion told his teammates. "Right here, we take it back home."

Martin announced his decision Thursday, with an Instagram graphic that read: "Not done yet." The junior had 1,305 rushing yards on a league-high 236 carries in 2025, scoring 12 touchdowns and adding 255 receiving yards on 36 receptions. He missed the BYU's Pop-Tarts Bowl win against Georgia Tech following surgery for a shoulder injury he sustained Oct. 25 against Iowa State.

For 2026, Texas Tech lured perhaps the biggest -- and likely most expensive -- fish yet. Sorsby ranked No. 1 overall in ESPN's Portal rankings. He'll project as one of the top quarterbacks in the country next year, as he earned second-team All-Big 12 honors last year. Tech has earned a reputation for being one of the sport's biggest spenders; ESPN's Max Olson reported earlier this year that the Red Raiders spent more than $3 million on edge rusher David Bailey last year.

The Badgers have signed Old Dominion transfer Colton Joseph, sources told ESPN. He projects as Wisconsin's starting quarterback for next season, after a dominating season at ODU that saw him finish No. 8 in the country in total offense last year at 302.6 yards per game. Joseph will bring Wisconsin a true dual-threat quarterback, as he rushed for 1,007 yards and threw for 2,624. He threw for 21 touchdowns and rushed for 13 more. Joseph will have two seasons of eligibility remaining.

Every playoff game should be played every single weekend until you finish the season. Even if it means we start Week 0 or you eliminate a bye, the season ends Jan. 1, and then the portal opens, then coaches that have to move on to their next opportunities get to move to their next opportunities.

Williams told AL.com on Tuesday that he's "Alabama through and through," adding that he has "no intentions of being anywhere else." After earning first-team All-SEC honors and freshman All-America honors in 2024, when he surged onto the scene as a 17-year-old for Alabama, Williams has had fewer catches, yards and half as many touchdowns (4) this season. The sophomore also has been prone to dropped passes. According to Tru Media, Williams is second nationally in highest percentage of drops (14.3) with 10 on the season.

For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Artur Galocha, ranked college football teams by amount of happiness and misery served to the schools' fans. The rankings span 70 teams and consider more than a dozen metrics, including national championships, playoff appearances, conference titles, winning percentage, wins over ranked opponents and other markers of success. The goal: measure how fans would feel if they abandoned their irrational disposition and focused on how the performance of their team compares to other programs.

Shortly after Iowa State's win in the 2024 Pop-Tarts Bowl, Cyclones receiver Jaylin Noel, in a celebratory mood, went to grab the game's trophy to lug it home. But this trophy is different from any other and, as such, required Josh Price, an engineer who helped build the thing, to deliver some safety instructions. Noel wasn't interested. "He was like, 'It's a freakin' toaster, man,' and ran out of the room," Price said.

Leading 21-0 midway through the second quarter at the Hawaii Bowl, Cal was positioned to generate valuable momentum heading into the start of the Tosh Lupoi coaching era. Instead, the Bears' 35-31 loss to Hawaii on Wednesday night was more evidence that the program needs a leadership change that can toss aside a tired and familiar narrative. The Bears teased their fans with a dynamite dash out of the starting blocks in front of a capacity crowd of 15,194 at cozy Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex.

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Four weeks ago in Missoula, a crowd of 27,340 watched Montana State play keep-away. Montana had just cut Montana State's lead to 31-28 with seven minutes remaining in a game that had already seen five lead changes. With one more stop, the Grizzlies would get the ball back with a chance to win and keep their unbeaten record intact. Correction: monthlong bragging rights, actually. Plus home-field advantage for the rematch.

The organization and its member universities were making a fortune while the players whose talents and bodies fuelled college sports got nothing, or close to it. The Southeastern Conference had just become "the first to crack the billion-dollar barrier in athletic receipts," Branch wrote, in The Atlantic. "The Big Ten pursued closely at $905 million." TV rights had driven the deluge, along with "a combination of ticket sales, concession sales, merchandise, licensing fees."

As a competitor, just like in everything I do I wanted to win. To be so close to my dream and come up short was painful. I didn't handle those emotions well at all and did not represent myself the way I wanted to. I have much love and respect for the Heisman voters and the selection process, and I apologize for being disrespectful. It was a mistake, and I am sorry.

A college bowl game's name is only as good as its mascot. Over the years, these fun (and sometimes edible) mascots have elevated end-of-season games into social media and pop culture spectacles. Reflect on notable mascots throughout college football bowl game history below: Bowl Dog, 68 Ventures Bowl Bowl fact: Marshall quarterback Byron Leftwich won MVP in the bowl (then known as the GMAC Bowl) in back-to-back years (2001, 2002).